http://www.blisstree.com/articles/farewell-to-a-blogger-on-michael-berube-and-life-as-we-know-it/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:11:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/articles/farewell-to-a-blogger-on-michael-berube-and-life-as-we-know-it/comment-page-1/#comment-530028 Autism Vox Tue, 09 Jan 2007 15:49:23 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/farewell-to-a-blogger-on-michael-berube-and-life-as-we-know-it/#comment-530028 [...] reads a headline in today’s New York Times: Due to new, less invasive screening techniques—-an ultrasound exam that can detect whether or not a child might have Down Syndrome as early as eleven weeks into pregnancy—American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is recommending that all women who are expecting be screened. Previously, only women 35 and older have been routinely tested for chromosonal abnormalities in their fetuses. The new ulstrasound exam, a nuchal translucency test, measures the fluid that accumulates in the back of a fetus’ neck: There is a “strong association” between this thickening of the back of a fetus’ neck and Down Syndrome, and studies that use this measurement along with two blood tests have been shown to detect 82 to 87 percent of Down Syndrome cases. Having just posted on English professor Michael Bérubé’s book about Jamie, his son who has Down Syndrome, Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child (1998), I wanted to point out two quotations made in the New York Times article and then a passage from Bérubé’s book, all while keeping in mind my recent post on Procreative Beneficience, PGD, and the Selecting of the “Best” Children in light of the issue of [...] [...] reads a headline in today’s New York Times: Due to new, less invasive screening techniques—-an ultrasound exam that can detect whether or not a child might have Down Syndrome as early as eleven weeks into pregnancy—American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) is recommending that all women who are expecting be screened. Previously, only women 35 and older have been routinely tested for chromosonal abnormalities in their fetuses. The new ulstrasound exam, a nuchal translucency test, measures the fluid that accumulates in the back of a fetus’ neck: There is a “strong association” between this thickening of the back of a fetus’ neck and Down Syndrome, and studies that use this measurement along with two blood tests have been shown to detect 82 to 87 percent of Down Syndrome cases. Having just posted on English professor Michael Bérubé’s book about Jamie, his son who has Down Syndrome, Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child (1998), I wanted to point out two quotations made in the New York Times article and then a passage from Bérubé’s book, all while keeping in mind my recent post on Procreative Beneficience, PGD, and the Selecting of the “Best” Children in light of the issue of [...]

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